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why doesn't Huck get along with Miss Watson and Widow Douglas?
they want to civilize him, yet he wants to remain free
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what are the main differences between Huck and Tom?
Huck is practical, or has common sense and Tom is a dreamer, bookworm, or impractical
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Why do Huck and Jim begin their journey down the Mississippi?
What is when people start looking for them on Jackson Island
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word: huffy “Hang the troublesome rubbage, ther’s ten now!” and she looked huffy and bothered both (257).
What is A fit of anger or annoyance
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why do material things not matter to Huck?
What is freedom is more important to him
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what does Huck think about religion-- specifically the good place, the bad place and prayer?
He wants to go to the "bad place" because the "good place" would be boring. He also doesn't believe in prayer.
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the family who had a feud with the Shepherdsons
What is the Grangerfords
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the reason Huck's conscience doesn't bother him when he lies so much
What is He is lying for a good cause
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word: tedious “It was most pesky tedious hard work and slow” (262).
What is Tiresome by reason of length; boring
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The wealthy Englishman who died
Peter Wilks
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why does Pap yell at Huck for becoming civilized?
Pap feels inferior because Huck is becoming educated while he remains ignorant
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these two characters are frauds and cheaters
What is Duke and King
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The reason Huck says, "All right then, I'll go to hell"
What is He has chosen what is right according to his conscience and he would risk the eternal happiness of his soul to do what he thinks is right for his friend Jim
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word: dismal “If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way by yourself in the night, you try it once—you’ll see” (86).
What is Gloomy; depressing “If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way by yourself in the night, you try it once—you’ll see” (86).
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The drunkard who is shot
What is Boggs
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What purpose does Huck's fake death serve?
He is truly "free" and doesn't have to worry about Pap, Widow Douglas, or Miss Watson to find him.
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this person buys Jim for ransom
What is Silas Phelps
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why does Huck want to save Jim Turner?
What is he felt sympathy for the murderer and didn't want him to be in that sort of trouble.
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word: victuals you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn’t really anything the matter with them,—that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself” (2)
What is food
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the point of the incident of the shooting of Boggs
What is it points out many weaknesses in human nature
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The reason why the slave hunters didn't get Jim
The hunters were afraid they would catch the disease they believed Huck's father had
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the murderer on a sinking ship
What is Jim Turner
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In the end, Jim's escape was unnecessary
what is Jim is set free in Miss Watson's will
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word: berth "Then they stood there, with their hands on the ledge of the berth, and talked" (71).
What is A place to sleep
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Twain included the adventure with the Grangerfords as a satire to criticize what?
What is the foolish side of human nature